This study is aimed at uncovering the model and the practices of knowledge sharing and flow in the agricultural knowledge centers established by a project named “Improving Productivity and Market Success” (IPMS). The goal was to improve agricultural productivity through market-oriented development to enhance livelihoods for rural populations. The twenty eight Agricultural Knowledge Centers esta...

Firm competitiveness depends heavily on the ability to produce new knowledge bases through combinations of knowledge located inside and outside the fi rm boundaries (Cassiman and Veugelers, 2006; Chesbrough, 2003a; Kogut and Zander, 1993). To increase competitiveness, fi rms need to be able to leverage complementary resource endowments and knowledge from external actors such as users, suppliers...

The environmental justice literature faces a number of conceptual and methodological shortcomings. The purpose of this paper is to probe ways in which these shortcomings can be remedied via recent developments in related literatures: population health and air pollution epidemiology. More sophisticated treatment of social structure, particularly if based on Pierre Bourdieu's relational approach ...

We propose and test a novel approach to the dilemma that the very networkbridging structure most likely to provide access to novel knowledge may be illsuited for the cooperation needed to successfully transfer that knowledge. We theorize that the relational dimension of social capital (e.g., tie strength) can act as a substitute for the structural benefits of network closure, and so a networkbr...

Aim-To test the effect of intellectual capital management on organizational competitive advantage in Egyptian hospitals. MethodThis study is a cross-sectional analytical study. The study was conducted in two hospitals (El-Nozha International Hospital and El-Demerdash Hospital). Study subjects consisted of three levels of management either nurses or physicians. (36) from El Nozha and (70) from E...

Employing a theoretical framework based on social capital theory, we conceptualize previous citations by author A of author B as weak cooperation that indicates cognitive capital between these authors, and previous coauthorships between them as strong cooperation that captures relational capital between them. We propose that these two types of cooperation impact the citation behavior of author ...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (human capital efficiency, customer capital efficiency, and structural capital efficiency) and economic value added of the listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The population includes 39 firms selected through systematic sampling. The data is collected from the audited financial stat...

This paper explores the significance of individuals and their particular assets of experience and networks, as the key influence to the growth process of the high technology cluster in Cambridge. There is substantial evidence that serial entrepreneurs may develop a high level of social capital and play an important role in shaping the formation of clusters in which they operate. Their multiple ...

Collaboration among health care providers and across systems is proposed as a strategy to improve health care delivery the world over. Over the past two decades, health care providers have been encouraged to work in partnership and build interdisciplinary teams. More recently, the notion of networks has entered this discourse but the lack of consensus and understanding about what is meant by ad...